1. IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU Egoism

2. Is morality just your own personal moral code? Morality is just whatever you believe it is. Everyone has his or her own morality.

3. The achievement of his own happiness is man’s highest purpose.

4. What is best in life is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women.

5. Egoism Psychological egoism: everyone always acts in his or her own self-interest Ethical egoism: everyone should always act in his or her own self-interest

6. Is psychological egoism true? Case 1: Private Ross McGinnis, who threw himself on a grenade in Iraq to save four other soldiers. Case 2: Gilbert’s evidence that children make parents less happy, yet people go on to have kids anyway. Conclusion: psychological egoism is false.

7. Is ethical egoism true? Objection 1: It leads to horrible consequences.  Example: the kidnapping, rape and enslavement of Jaycee Lee Dugard  Example: Kristen Diane Parker, who stole pain meds from cancer patients and infected three dozen people with Hepatitis C

8. Is ethical egoism true? Objection 2: subjectivity  Ethical egoism implies that morality is no more than a subjective matter of taste

9. Is ethical egoism true? Objection 3: ethical egoism violates the principle of equal treatment Principle of Equal Treatment: two people should be treated the same way unless there is a relevant difference between them.